Senior Finance Manager

1 week ago


Swindon Village, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Nationwide Building Society Full time

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Finance Manager to join our Financial Reporting team. The Financial Reporting team sits at the heart of Nationwide's internal and external reporting and is accountable for delivering high quality statutory and regulatory financial reporting. The team ensures all reporting is compliant with regulations, accounting standards and best practice, developing accounting policies and providing specialist technical accounting advice on a range of issues, as well as managing the relationship with the external auditors. The team is also responsible for technical accounting, IFRS 9 reporting and Treasury Finance.

Our team comprises individuals with a wide range of experiences who are building processes and capability to meet current and future requirements.

We have an exciting time ahead and are seeking to grow the team with high calibre individuals.

As a Senior Finance Manager in the team, you will be accountable for setting a compelling vision and direction, developing solutions, and delivering high-quality reporting, as well as promoting an efficiency and controls mindset. You will lead a team that works collaboratively across the whole of Finance and with the wider business to develop what we do and ensure both processes and outputs reflect best practice.

You will need to manage and influence a wide variety of stakeholders across the Society as you embed new reporting requirements and enhance the current processes in place.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, at one of our offices in Swindon or London, with monthly travel to Swindon, if you're based in London.

If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here .

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you'll be doing

You will be demonstrating your strong leadership skills as you coordinate and lead in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders and priorities. You will be speaking to colleagues regularly to ensure that they can deliver information to you in a controlled and timely manner.

You will be excellent at managing stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds, both internally and externally, at all levels of the organisation. You will be skilled at generating a culture of collaboration across numerous pieces of work and managing conflicting accountabilities.

You'll work closely with your peers and senior leaders within the Financial Reporting team, and be expected to express your opinions in a clear and professional manner. You have an important role to make sure that the requirements of the Reporting team are understood and can clearly articulate the vision of the future to everyone.

The work will be varied and could cover the following:

  • Managing and developing processes for the efficient delivery of Nationwide's group and subsidiary financial reporting, ensuring these are in line with internal and external requirements and timelines.
  • Implementing and managing control and governance processes to ensure high-quality reporting that is appropriately reviewed and approved.
  • Identifying, evaluating and driving forward opportunities for improvements to key processes to deliver meaningful quality and efficiency benefits, prioritising resource to optimise benefits delivered.
  • Leading, developing and motivating a team of finance professionals to create a high performing team.
  • Demonstrating your agility and decision making when assessing and implementing changing reporting requirements and ensuring appropriate solutions to support evolving business activities.
  • Contributing to wider departmental management and leadership activities and initiatives.
  • Supporting technical accounting and reporting developments.
  • Collaborating with the internal team and external auditors to support successful half year and full year reporting.

About you

At a minimum you will be:

  • Be a qualified accountant, with extensive experience
  • Have a strong background in financial reporting under IFRS, with experience in audit practice or in a large, corporate environment, preferably within financial services.
  • Have a focus on delivery and demonstrated ability to overcome obstacles and challenges in delivering on commitments.
  • Demonstrate excellent team leadership and organisational skills to manage multiple activities, including the delivery of a high volume of reporting to strict reporting timelines.
  • Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand and manage complex accounting and reporting activities.
  • Possess a drive for delivering high-quality outputs and an ability to maintain oversight of team outputs and establish appropriate review processes to ensure accuracy and timeliness of all deliverables.
  • Demonstrate highly effective stakeholder management skills, across all levels, within and outside of the organisation, and the ability to collaborate and drive activities across the wider business.
  • Evidence clear and effective communication and influencing skills
  • Have strong team leadership and coaching skills to motivate and develop the team and its skills.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

  • Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
  • Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
  • Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you're sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it's a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you'll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

  • A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
  • Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
  • Life assurance worth 8x your salary
  • A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
  • Gympass - Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
  • Access to an annual performance related bonus
  • Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
  • 30 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world's largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population. We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.

As a building society, we're owned by our members - that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose - Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the 'Apply Now' button. You'll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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